I am wondering whether I should wait for Double Platinum and purchase some of it then, or shouldn't get my hopes up? With all the Xmas stuff going on everywhere, I was thinking developers would give us players a present. And yes, I know about free gifts with every purchase of plat that came into play with the recent patch.
I really don't want to feel like a dumbass and purchase platinum right before Double Platinum kicks in. Happened before and it felt exceptionally painful.
Usually Double Platinum only takes place 2 times a year. Black Friday (end of November) and the CH birthday celebration (in June).
Earlier, it was
suggested by Schwing that there may be something coming up for people who missed out on the sale last month. I want to stress that as far as I can tell,
nothing specific was promised. Some people believe it will be double platinum , but I don't think anything specific was promised...even if it was, plans may have changed.
So essentially, it is entirely your call whether you buy platinum now or later. If you don't mind the wait, I'd recommend waiting until June...but that's still 7 months away. You could also wait and see if there will be a special event in the next few weeks, but as nothing has been promised, it's a gamble.
*edit - I did some more research after posting this, and I made a slight mistake, sorry.*
Schwing mentioned in
this post that there would be an exp event in the future to help players who have missed out on playtime.
Double Plat and XP event
We will work to ensure that no one who is affected by these issues misses out on double plat, and will also be running an XP event in future to help players catch up who have missed out on playtime.We'll release more details about this next week.
My guess is that unless VR changed their mind (since I don't think they have mentioned it since then), any exp event likely will wait until the issues are fixed completely, so that everyone can partake in it. He also doesn't specifically say that there will be another double platinum event...though that is one way that his post could be interpreted. So you could still wait and see if there is another upcoming platinum event, or you could just pull the trigger now and go for it.